- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I wouldn't have made the callback for 'Ma' if my father's house had not burned down because I would have been in finals. My teachers would not have been chill with me leaving in the middle of my Medieval Magic final.
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a manual worker.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.
- Nov 07, 2020
It all started with my father's directorial debut, 'En Raasavin Manasile,' which starred Raj Kiran sir as the lead.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020